Eighty-nine year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader Robert Byrd is now the President Pro Tempore of the Senate — that’s third in the line of presidential successors for those of you keeping score at home.
The nation is just three hearbeats away from a most frightening morning newspaper cover consisting of a picture of Byrd sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office under the headline “The Kleagle has landed.”
